Artificial intelligence (AI) helps face the adversities of climate change and gives an early and accurate forecast of vineyard yields

In the following videos related to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI), we propose two very interesting interventions by Research Groups specialized in Digital Agriculture, Food and Wine.

Sigfredo Fuentes, from the University of Melbourne, will present work resulting from five years of research titled “How Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping winemakers deal with the adversity of climate change.” These are new technologies based on Artificial Intelligence to monitor the growth of the vineyard; using the analysis of computer vision and grape maturity, based on the death of grape cells, with the aim of predicting the gustatory and aromatic profiles of grapes and finished wines.

L’article « New AI-based system for early and accurate vineyard yield forecasting » de José Cuevas-Valenzuela traite d’un nouveau système de viticulture de précision rentable, rapide et précis pour la prévision du rendement des vignobles, développé au centre de recherche et d’innovation de Viña Concha y Toro. The forecast of the yield in the vineyard is a fundamental issue for the planning of the harvest and the optimization of the winemaking operations; to date, there can be forecast errors of up to 20-30% per block. With this system, the forecast error is reduced to below 10% per block, since the new system detects and exploits the spatial variability of the vineyard in a very useful way, and is flexible and adaptable to different forms of cultivation and to any vineyard size.

Video of the entries submitted to the Enoforum Web Contest 2021 during the Enoforum Web Conference (23-25 February 2021)